Youth For Lateral Kindness

Lateral violence is prevalent within indigenous communities. Click here for more information.

Our Team

Meet the members of our team!

The Blanket Exercise

Looking for more information on the blanket exercise? We've got you covered.

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Welcome!

We are pleased that you have decided to visit our website. This has been a long-time in the making, and we are so glad to finally have a website for our business! We'd like to take this opportunity to give thanks to our nation of Kwanlin Dün, our Elders, and supporters, and a special thanks to our mentors Marilyn, Thomas, Gyde, Les, and Caroline. Without you we wouldn't be where we are today.

Youth for Lateral Kindness is a business based out of Whitehorse, YT which offers youth lateral violence workshops and blanket exercises, as well as motivational speaking. With our team of young indigenous women, we encourage healthy behaviours and reconciliation among Yukoners through the services we offer.

We are very thankful to be able to facilitate these meaningful workshops, and we encourage you to visit our services section to learn more.

If you have any questions, please send us an email! In the meantime, we hope you enjoy browsing our website.

Youth for Lateral Kindness was started by Teagyn and Aurora (unofficially) in September 2016. Before that, we were a part of the V2K Warriors project, which was a youth-led initiative created to address lateral violence among youth in our community of Kwanlin Dün First Nation.

Co-Founder Teagyn Vallevand was among the speakers at McBride Museum talking about Youth For Lateral Kindness for their Women's History Month speaker series. Watch the livestream from MacBride Museum presentations.

We wish the best of luck to our co-founder Aurora as she pursues her Post-Secondary Studies this year in Calgary. We will still continue to do blanket exercises for groups who request us. Click for further details.

KDFN citizen Aurora Hardy will be the civilian VIP who officially accepts the salute to begin the RCMP Musical Ride! Aurora was nominated by the Office of the Commissioner of the Yukon, as this year’s Musical Ride will honour outstanding youth in our community.